Mobile Retailing News Weekly - Week of May 16, 2011

The Mobile Retailing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile retailing applications and mobile marketing applications that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

SAP is expected to launch the latest version of what it calls the Sybase Unwired Platform at its annual customer and partner event in Orlando, Florida this week. This includes 19 mobile apps for businesses covering areas such as sales, finance, procurement and human resources. Read More

Pyramid Research estimates that the number of mobile banking users in Latin America will grow 65 percent between 2010 and 2015, from around 18 million users to over 140 million users. Read More

PayPal expects to process more than $2 billion in mobile payments this year, which is nearly three times the amount it processed in 2010. Read More

According to TNS research, the use of mobile wallet technology amongst U.K. consumers has more than doubled in the last 12 months with more than one in ten people now making payments via a mobile device. Read More

Visa is building a digital wallet that people can use to purchase items online or with their phones instead of with traditional cards. Read More

According to a GfK NOP report, debit and credit card holders seem to be attracted to the idea of mobile payment services. Read More

According to Berg Insight, by 2015 there will be 900 million people using mobile banking on their phones. Read More

Google is gearing up for a launch of its Mobile Wallet project, which enables smartphone based NFC payments. Google plans to release the product first in Europe, where the competition is heating up, according to a Marketing Week report. Read More

In countries like the U.S., China and Brazil mobile banking users have increased over 100 percent in the past year. Read More

Asians are more likely than people elsewhere in the world to use their mobile phones to do their banking and to shop online. Read More

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Kevin Benedict is the opinionated Senior Analyst for Digital Transformation and Mobility at Cognizant. He is a world traveller, ...
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Kevin Benedict is the opinionated Senior Analyst for Digital Transformation and Mobility at Cognizant. He is a world traveller, speaker, writer, digital curator, editor and mobile and digital strategies expert. In the past three years, Kevin has taught mobile and digital transformation strategies workshops in 17 different countries. He has over 25 years of experience working with enterprise applications and fourteen years in the mobile application market. He has also served as a mobile software executive. He wrote the Forward to SAP Press' book titled Mobilizing Your Enterprise with SAP, and he also authored the analyst paper for SAPinsider titled, Mobile Outlook 2012.
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